Micah 4:9 “Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counsel…”

Micah 4:9

Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished so that anguish grips you like a woman in labor?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.

World English Bible

Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pains have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail?

American Standard Version

Now why dost thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee, is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail?

Geneva Bible 1599

Nowe why doest thou crie out with lamentation? is there no King in thee? is thy counseller perished? for sorowe hath taken thee, as a woman in trauaile.

Darby Translation

Now why dost thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have seized thee as a woman in travail?

Young's Literal Translation

Now, why dost thou shout aloud? A king — is there none in thee? Hath thy counsellor perished, That taken hold of thee hath pain as a travailing woman?

Bible in Basic English

Now why are you crying so loudly? is there no king in you? has destruction come on your wise helper? so that pains have taken you like the pains of a woman in childbirth:

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Cross references

“why”

Jeremiah 8:19 Jeremiah 4:21 Jeremiah 30:6 Jeremiah 30:7

Jeremiah 8:19 · BSB

Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreig…

Jeremiah 4:21 · BSB

How long must I see the signal flag and hear the sound of the horn?

Jeremiah 30:6 · BSB

Ask now, and see: Can a male give birth? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor and every face turned pale?

Jeremiah 30:7 · BSB

How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it.

“is there”

Isaiah 3:1–7 Lamentations 4:20 Hosea 3:4 Hosea 10:3 Hosea 13:10 Hosea 13:11

Isaiah 3:1–7 · BSB

For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,

Lamentations 4:20 · BSB

The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”

Hosea 3:4 · BSB

For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.

Hosea 10:3 · BSB

Surely now they will say, “We have no king, for we do not revere the LORD. What can a king do for us?”

Hosea 13:10 · BSB

Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?

Hosea 13:11 · BSB

So in My anger I gave you a king, and in My wrath I took him away.

“for”

Isaiah 13:8 Isaiah 21:3 Isaiah 26:17 Jeremiah 22:23 Jeremiah 50:43

Isaiah 13:8 · BSB

Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.

Isaiah 21:3 · BSB

Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.

Isaiah 26:17 · BSB

As a woman with child about to give birth writhes and cries out in pain, so were we in Your presence, O LORD.

Jeremiah 22:23 · BSB

O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a woman in labor.”

Jeremiah 50:43 · BSB

The king of Babylon has heard the report, and his hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped him, pain like that of a woman in labor.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8And you, O watchtower of the flock, O stronghold of the Daughter of Zion— the former dominion will be restored to you; sovereignty will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem.”

10Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies!

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